i hung up the phone. my wife looked at me. and she says, you okay? and i looked at her, and i m crying. i said, there s nothing more i could do. i got him there. i led him there. i led him to the trough. reporter: gurule and his wife went on their trip anyway, and for three long days he was left twisting in the wind once again by travis forbes. kenia s family knew nothing of this, still holding out hope that she was somehow alive. every time i was driving down the street and i seen a skinny little black-haired girl, i can t tell you how many accidents i ve almost had trying to get around the corner to see who this little skinny black-haired girl is. there was still reports coming in of sightings of her. and you ve got to turn in all these sightings because you don t know. reporter: but then something
he never puts it in the freezer. it has granola bars in it. they don t need to be frozen. so that just seemed really strange. reporter: all that. the cleaning, the cooler moving, happened two nights after kenia went missing. so detective gurule checked with several of the bakery s employees to see what else travis was up to that evening. he burns some stuff in a barrel. we found that barrel down the alley at the other end of the parking lot. and monica poole told one of the detectives, hey, that s my grease barrel. what s it doing down there? reporter: travis claimed he was using it to burn some moldy marijuana. the barrel was sent to the crime lab. we ran that for dna. we ran that for fingerprints. reporter: but nothing turned up. if there were any clues in that barrel, they had been burned.
thought, wow, that must be that missing girl. reporter: detectives looked around, even shot this video of the place. but they didn t find much. travis was there. so they took him downtown for questioning. travis, this is detective gurule. how s it going? travis. he s a talker. very, very charming. very manipulative. i never met her before then reporter: and talk travis did. reciting the very same story he told tony lee, about picking up a lost and distressed kenia downtown. then stopping for cigarettes at that gas station. where she met another man, who said he d take her home. she put her arm through his arm. like while they were while they were sitting there smoking. and they walked off. and that was it. that was the last that was it. then i went home. and that s the last you see her? yes. reporter: travis was cool, calm, even contrite about
epte this according to family and good friends was not like kenia. she didn t drink to excess. she would never run off with a strange guy and leave her purse and phone and keys behind. in fact, when tony saw this video, he was convinced. kenia wasn t drunk. something was done to her. i absolutely believe 100% that she was slipped a date rape drug because everything that she did in that club that night was against anything that she s ever done before. reporter: gurule tracked down the young man from the apartment lobby, and he admitted dancing with kenia at the club and showing her his loft. but she left right away, he said. the video confirmed it. he was cleared. so that left only two possible suspects the mysterious man at the gas station and travis forbes. i did not. reporter: and apparently, travis was feeling the heat. i ve man. reporter: so out of the blue
without a body and without seeing the case. i ve talked to my commanders, and they said never in the history of this police department has that ever happened. ever. reporter: finally, after frustrating months of knuckle-biting tension, disappearances, dead-end games of cat and mouse, detective gurule was about to get the answers he d been searching for. and he was exhausted. to celebrate and rest up gurule decided to take a few days off with his wife. so we re driving out of town. i get a call and they say he pulled out. chilling connections returns after the break.